Richard P. Bland quotes
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“Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.”
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“What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.”
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“The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.”
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“Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future.”
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“Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.”
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“Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.”
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“Will you stand by it now, or will you let the Shylocks come and have their way? It is for you to determine.”
-- Richard P. Bland
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“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”
Source : New Yorker, 14 May 1960
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“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.”
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Source : Abd al-Karim Qasim's historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College, 1959.
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“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.”
Source : "Meditations Poetiques". Book by Alphonse de Lamartine, 1820.
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